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- Title
De cómo llegó la colección arqueológica del Lago de Valencia -- Venezuela a Alemania, Francia y Estados Unidos.
- Authors
PEÑA, NATALIA DÍAZ
- Abstract
The archaeological collection of the Lake Valencia plays a relevant role in shaping the first National Museum of Venezuela. The first official excavation at Lake Valencia was made in 1887 by Vicente Marcano. The collection went to the Museum of Mankind in Paris. Similarly the German Adolfo Emst, director of the National Museum, sent many pieces abroad. Later in 1903, Alfredo Jahn was commissioned by the "Museum for Völkerkunde" [now Ethnological Museum) in Berlin to conduct excavations in Lake Valencia. In 1929 Rafael Requena. private secretary of the venezuelan president conducted numerous excavations in the area, much of this collection is now located in museums in the United States, Brazil and Venezuela. The anthropologists Wendell Bennett, Alfred Kidder lI and Cornelius Osgood conducted excavations in the mid-30s of the twentieth century, these objects are part of American collections. Even though most of these collections have no inventory, cataloguing, and much less documentation, they are the product of economic and political relations that were established in the past.
- Subjects
VENEZUELA; ARCHAEOLOGICAL museums &; collections; NATIONAL museums; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; OSGOOD, Cornelius; KIDDER, Alfred; ANTHROPOLOGISTS
- Publication
Baessler-Archiv, 2008, Vol 56, p113
- ISSN
0005-3856
- Publication type
Article